So with docking its great to be able to share resources between modules you have docked in space.

Docking something on Munar surface isn't quite the same. I can get another module close but landing on something to dock not so much.

It would be cool/add use to kerbals if we could run power cables from ship to ship. A kerbal would have to get out and drag the line which would connect like fuel lines just stretched between two plugs.

You could send up a pack of batteries to keep your lights on during the dark phase at night.

I recently sent up a battery pack with tons of lights and a few solar panels but the number needed to keep only 3 lights on during the dark phase made it very heavy. Multiple connected battery modules would have been great.

It may become easier to dock on surfaces once rovers are introduced. It would make sense for them to try that out first. It'd be cool a cool idea to implement with orbital construction though. I know that they talked about a strut-gun in on of their streams, where you'd EVA and connect parts with it, so power cables could work the same way.

I have been assembling my Mun base using rovers. The initial engineering is tricky but once you've worked it out it's not so bad. Here are some pictures to give you an idea of how it works: OneTwoThree

Also it's incredibly fun to cart modules around on the back of wobbly rovers. I taped the whole assembly, if I can get around an encoding problem here I may put up video.

I actually got to ask C7 about being able to run fuel lines and struts (electrical cables would probably work well here too) between docked and non-docked spacecraft using kerbals on EVA during the .18 launch stream.

He said that it's planned for down the road and just the go-ahead during one of their dev meetings

Yeah, it was mainly so I can have send up just battery packs and tie the light tower into them. A ton of battery packs to a few lights = long lasting lights. Right now each tower has to have a crap ton of batteries to keep its own lights online during the mun dark phase.

I need like 5k worth of energy units for a few lights for such a long phase.

I haven't started any colonies yet, so my idea may not work (at least, as smoothly as it is in my head). I had the notion to create a series of buildings on wheels that would be autonomous and self-propelled that would connect via docking ports. An advantage, if this works, is that the entire colony would be able to pack it in and move locations a short distance away.

Yeah I thought about this. My only thought on the idea is if the ground is uneven. I dont know how flexible those docking ports are. Then you also have to pick a standard height at which to build them or you will have one up there and own down low. This might not work out on every design due to engine placement or what be it.

A docking port that could pivot a couple degrees would probably fill this need. Or could extend sort of like a flexible accordion or something. Kinda hoping to see freely rotating docks so we could make rotating space-station pieces.

It depends on the gravity. If gravity is low (Mun-ish) you can wiggle up and down using RCS and the docking ports turn out to be very forgiving. In Kerbin-like gravity it can be really tough to dock together rovers if their ports are even a little misaligned.

Along the same lines, it'd be great if fuel pipe thingies (forget the name) could also transfer RCS fuel. It'd be useful for just having to transfer RCS fuel out of 1 tank when you have a bank on your space station, etc. (If you have 10 RCS fuel tanks, you can line them all into 1, then just transfer fuel to ships using that one.) :D

I know that you can transfer it using the alt-click method, I mean that, let's say you have 10 or so RCS tanks, you can transfer all of the fuel to 1 tank automagically, so that when you want to fuel another ship with RCS, you can just take fuel out of that 1 tank and it will auto-refill from the reserve tanks. I think it would be useful for fuel transfers and stuff, make it a little easier :D.

this would be great for something like sending a lander to the moon and sending the rest of the ship back to kerbin orbit then another ship could come up dock empty its fuel and you would be ready for another mission